A new AT&T tower is going up at the outskirts of Harco that should fill a service gap for cellular phone customers in the area.
A crew from ETA Systems, working for Midwest Underground, was erecting the tower Friday on the property of Tonya Collins. Collins says her cell phone reception at her home near the intersection of Old Route 13 and Harco Road is spotty and is hopeful for improvement.
But even better than reliable cell phone service is the bonus monthly lease payment she will receive from the company.
"For the first five years it's $500 a month," Collins said.
Every five years after that the payment per month increases by 15 percent. At a 25-year lease, the payments will eventually reach about $900 a month, she said.
Collins, owner of a court reporting company and single mother of second-grader Haleigh, says that money will go into her daughter's college fund.
Abe Schulz of Georgia said the crew installs towers in the dead of winter and in the heat of summer anywhere in the country. Most often working in the middle of shadeless fields, the trees in Collins yard were a welcome change.
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